1. Visual Ethnography Year-in-Review AssignmentSharenda RoamDMIN528Instructor: Jason ClarkSummer, 2013 2. Concepts & Context Intellectual Empathy Social Imaginaries Language as System Art & Music Shalom Living Culture JammersIsrael 3. Intellectual EmpathyHaving a consciousness of theneed to imaginatively putoneself in the place of others inorder to genuinely understandthem, which requires theconsciousness of our egocentrictendency to identify truth withour immediate perceptions oflong-standing thought or belief.Linda Elder and Paul RichardBedouin Music in Negev Desert 4. Social Imaginariesthe ways people imagine their social existence Charles TaylorOur Father in AramaicMaroniteChurchPrayerbook inAramaicandArabic 5. Language as SystemOur speech does not so much reflect our innerworld as instantiate and reproduce discrete spheresof language as system. To put the point differently,language is less something within our minds orselves than something around us in the societalstructure Anthony Elliotthttp://www.handinhandk12.org/Hand in Hand SchoolCenter for Jewish-ArabEducationJerusalem Youth Choir Jews & Arabs 6. Art & MusicKissing a painting or a statue was a common way of expressingdevotion Asa Briggs and Peter BurkeNorik Manoukian and Aleve Family MusiciansIcon from oldest churchin Jerusalem (Armenian)Perfumed top of tomb of Jesusin Greek Orthodox Church 7. Shalom Living shalom living consists of living a faithful presence[it is] away of living which includes flourishing people acting in waysof sacrificial love and support James HunterHaifa, IsraelYuval Ron Ensemble and Sufis performing Shalom Salaam Bahai Gardens 8. System JammersWe do not live in the Matrix, nordo we live in the spectacle. Theworld that we live in is in factmuch more prosaic. It consists ofbillions of human beings, eachpursuing some more or lessplausible conception of the good,trying to cooperate with oneanother, and doing so with varyingdegrees of success.Joseph Heath and Andrew PotterMember ofWomen of the Wallhttp://womenofthewall.org.il/ 9. Texts Briggs, Asa, and Peter Burke. Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to theInternet. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009. Elder, Linda, and Richard Paul. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Conceptsand Tools. Kindle ed. Tomales, CA: The Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2009. Elliott, Anthony. Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction. Kindle ed. New York:Routledge, 2009. Heath, Joseph, and Andrew Potter. The Rebel Sell: How the Counter CultureBecame Consumer Culture. Chichester: Capstone Publishing Ltd, 10, 2005. Hunter, James Davison. To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility ofChristianity in the Late Modern World. New York: Oxford University Press, 252,2010. Taylor, Charles. Modern Social Imaginaries Public Planet Books. Durham: DukeUniversity Press, 244-250, 2004. 10. Western Wall, Jerusalem